[ale] WiFi PC Card Market

[David A. De Graaf]

On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 07:54:01PM -0400, David A. De Graaf wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 06:56:18PM -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > I was really hoping for something from the walk-in-and-buy-it world...
> 
> If you're interested in a USB plugin unit that works at 802.11b speed,
                                                                ^
Of course, I meant 802.11g    Sheesh!

> eg, 54 Mbit/s, I've recently bought a DLink DWL-G122 adapter, and am
> using it with a DLink DI-524 wireless/wired router at the other end.
> As far as I know this is the ONLY one of the small -b speed adapters
                                                      ^
                                              And here, too!

> that do work with Linux.
> 
> There is no native driver for Linux - you must use the Windows driver
> under ndiswrapper.  However, it seems to work well.
> 
> The measured transmission speed is in the neighborhood of 800,000.
> Bytes/sec - substantially below 54 Mb/s (or ~6.75 MB/s) - even though
> iwconfig reports the full 54 Mb/s capability.  I suspect this is due
> to limitations of the USB port, but I don't know that for sure.
> 
> Anyway, it's a big improvement over the predecessor Belkin F5D6050
> adapter that was only an 802.11b device.
> 
> More details can be found on my web page - www.datix.us, menu item
> "Wireless upgrade".
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 15:37 -0400, Emil P. Man wrote:
> > > Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > > 
> > > >I'm needing to buy a PC Card Wifi adapter for my wife's laptop and I'm
> > > >not up on the Linux-supportedness of the makes and models one would find
> > > >in the typical Fry's, Circuit City, Best Buy, etc.  I have a prism54
> > > >card for my own laptop that works fairly well, but it's not my
> > > >understanding that I can get the FooBar 65X3342 card and assume it has
> > > >the same chipset as the FooBar 65X3342 card from two years ago.
> > > >
> > > >  
> > > >
> > > I would just get on ebay and buy an older one.. pretty much guranteed to 
> > > work. I have a netgear ma401 that is pretty well supported on linux. It 
> > > uses the orinoco chipset and those are well developed modules on linux.
> > > 
> > > >I also have that classic problem that you can't really tell from the
> > > >shrinkwrapped box just what chipset a Wifi card has, much less whether
> > > >or not it's Linux-usable.
> > > >
> > > >Jeff
> 
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	David A. De Graaf    DATIX, Inc.    Hendersonville, NC
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